Re: [Newbie] Advice needed regarding SHA0 SHA1 MD5
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Re: [Newbie] Advice needed regarding SHA0 SHA1 MD5

From: Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com>
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 12:45:26 CEST



"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message 


news:7x8xya36rd.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...



I will agree with pretty much everything Paul said, but I will add that 


SHA-512 is also an approved successor, does offer more security, and on a 


64-bit system is often significantly faster, and as such may be worthwhile 


for your purposes if you spend a lot of time on 64-bit machines. 


Additionally, I will urge you to make preparations to move to a new hash 


function if/when the need arises for this my standard recommendation is 


Whirlpool due to the fact that it is radically different from any of the 


others.


                Joe 


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:52:54 2005